Door sign



Sept. 9 1924. 1,507,786

M. F.'MoNlGAN DOOR SIGN Filed oct. 22'. 192s A1TORN EY Patented Sept. 9, 1924.

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' 'Application ined oetqber 22, 192e;A serial No'. arduo.

T0 `all lwhom t may conce/m:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL F. MONIGAN,

a citizen of the United States, residing at.

Rosebank, Staten Island, in the county of Richmond and State of vNew York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Door Signs, ofl which the following isa specification.

This invention relates todoorl signs and a concealed position v4behind the ldoor. and

capable of being moved toexposed position by the operation of'a push button arranged on theoutside ofthe door.`

v Another object of the invention is to provide a device ofthe class mentioned, which includes in addition to the features pointed out above, a sign operable :from the inside of a room for ldisplaying "certain indicia pertaining to the working hours of the store.

With these and other objects in view, the invention resides in certain novel construction and combination and 'arrangement of parts, the essential features ofl which are hereinafter fully described, are particularly pointed out in the appended claims, and are illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in whichzy Figure 1 is an elevational view of my invention applied to a door.

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 2 2 of Figure 1, but showing the signs in their normal position.

Figure 8 is a vertical sectional view on the line 3 3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a horizontal sectionalview on the line 4.-4 of Figure 2.

,Figure 5 is an elevational view of the changeable sign.

Figure 6 is a vertical sectional view on the line 6-6 of Figure 5.

Figure 7 is a detail horizontal sectional view on the line 7-7 of Figure 5.

Although the device has been mentioned as being applicable to the door of a store, I wish it to be understood that the same may be used for various other purposes, such as office doors, oflice desks and the like, as'I do not wishtolimitcmyselfto the type of door hereinbefore mentioned.

.Referring more yparticularly to the sev-` eral views in the drawing, vthe referencenumeral 10 designates a door frame of theusual well-known construction, -which includes a transparentspanel 11, and'it'is to the inside.. of the door frame adjacent the transparent' panel, .that my inventionl is aprv plied. My invention includesua housing or casing.12,.having'one of .its ends open as at 13,.-and provided ywith. a partition 14. for dividingY the same into compartments 15 and 16. Attachingmeans inLthe nature of brackets 17 are employed for .securing `the housingfto the door, vbut it fisl to be under- Vstood that'any suitablemeansV could be employedV 'for' thishpurpose. Mounted;v in the compartments 15v and 16, lare frames 18. and 19 respectively. Theframes 18 and19 are pivotally secured to'the of a pivot pin '20.. l f i..

`The frame-18supports a suitable sign`21 havingindicia thereon, 'such asthe name, home address and telephone number-ofthe proprietor-lof the store'up'on which the inhousing by means y vention is used. This'sign'is adapted to be exposed in cases of emergencyV when it is desired to locatethe responsible person connected with thev store; after'closing hours. The frames 18fand'19 are provided on their sideswith a lug orshoulder 22, for co-action with' a spring lpressed p ivkoted dog. 28, the

y tail ofthe :dogbeing operab'le'byva spring pressed plunger 24', provided witha manipulating head25. One of the heads 25 extends to the outside of the door and the other to the inside as clearly shown in Figures 2 and 4 of the drawings. In other words the sign 18 is controlled from outside and the sign 19 from the inside.

Normally the signs are concealed inl the housing and held therein again movement by the co--acting elements 22.y and 23, but when it is desired vto expose the same, the plunger 25 is compressed to cause the'di'sengagement of the coacting elements` and a fiat spring- 26 tends tol move the frame about its pivot and through the open end 13 of the housingtoa horizontal position as shown in Figure 1 and' in dotted lines Y l lin Figure 8, wherein the sign may be viewed through the panel 11 ofthe door.

The construction ofv the frame 19 is slightly, different thanthe frame 18, andin- I 

